They’ve been down before in the playoffs - and to many eyes, they looked down and out in the second round after the New York Rangers evened that series 2-2 - but they’ve never seemed as vulnerable as they do now. The Senators looked stunned after the four-goal first period outburst, unable to find their footing on ice that appeared tilted against them. They had the confident air of a team that won the Stanley Cup a year ago, a team that understands the importance of never letting an opponent up for air when they have them at their mercy. The Penguins looked like their previous selves, on another planet from the Senators. Puskar / Associated Press Photo by Gene J. You try to stay in the moment as best you can and forget about your performance, (whether it’s) good, bad or indifferent, because if you live in the past, you’re not living in the present.”Īrticle content Gene J. “Sometimes, at the end of the game or even after the (first period), I don’t even know how one of the goals went in until you watch in on the replay. If we’ve heard him talk once about the importance of having a bad memory - of flushing the garbage down the toilet - we’ve heard it 1,000 times. To wonder about the bizarre coaching decision to take goaltender Craig Anderson out of the game, then then throw him back in before he yielded his worst goal of the post-season?Īnderson himself could offer some advice on this front. To look at the saves made by Penguins goaltender Matt Murray and see few holes in his game? To watch in awe of the 1:22 that the Penguins hemmed the Senators in their own zone before Bryan Rust put the Senators out of their misery by scoring the Penguins’ third goal? Matt Kincaid / Getty Images Photo by Matt Kincaid / Getty Images To etch in players’ heads the power-play brilliance of Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby that made it 2-0?
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